Earlier this year, The SSD Review was offered the opportunity take the newly released OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 40GB SSD for a spin as it was about to hit the streets as the lowest priced SandForce driven SSD on the market at $99. In speaking to the OWC Marketing team, we also learned that word had just been received of an exciting new firmware release which we might want to wait for. The wait was just a bit longer than expected so lets start this review off with an apology and an assurance that the reasoning for such is very good news. As tested, this little SSD is still one of the most value conscious SandForce Driven models available and is presently the top performing SSD we have put through our Test Bench to date. Read on!